If your computer gets infected with ransomware, follow the steps below to recover your data: Step 1: Do not pay the ransom because there is no guarantee that the ransomware creators will give you access to your data. Step 2: Find any available backups you have, and consider keeping your data backupss in secure, off-site locations. Step 3: If there are no backups, you have to try decrypting the data locked by ransomware using the best ransomware decryption tools available. In this anti-ransomware guide, we included these free decryption tools you can use to avoid all types of malware. How to identify the ransomware you’ve been infected with. Oftentimes, the ransom note provides details about the type of ransomware your files have been encrypted with, but it can happen that you don’t have this information at hand. Readers have asked us to show which encryption extensions belong to which ransomware families. Many of these extensions signaled new types of encrypting malware, for which there are no decryptors available.READ MORE

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